{"product_id":"how-the-spanish-empire-was-built-by-felipe-fernandez-armesto-9781789148404","title":"How the Spanish Empire Was Built","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSixteenth-century Spain was small, poor, disunited, and sparsely populated. Yet the Spaniards and their allies built the largest empire the world had ever seen. How did they achieve this?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFelipe Fernández-Armesto and Manuel Lucena Giraldo argue that Spain's engineers were critical to this venture. The Spanish invested in infrastructure to the advantage of local power brokers, enhancing the abilities of incumbent elites to grow wealthy on trade, and widening the arc of Spanish influence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBringing to life stories of engineers, prospectors, soldiers, and priests, the authors paint a vivid portrait of Spanish America in the age of conquest. This is a dazzling new history of the Spanish Empire, and a new understanding of empire itself, as a venture marked as much by collaboration as oppression.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHow the Spanish Empire Was Built\u003c\/em\u003e provides a fresh perspective on the Spanish Empire and the pivotal role of engineering in its expansion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46849290731756,"sku":"9781789148404","price":57.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/28013083482824.jpg?v=1759034129","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/how-the-spanish-empire-was-built-by-felipe-fernandez-armesto-9781789148404","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}